Unit 9: The Cold War Era

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic/nuclear bomb.

• Manhattan Project

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up four zones of control in Germany and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face "total destruction".

(considered the "warning" for the Atomic bomb, even though it was not specific)

• Truman Doctrine

• McCarthyism

• Potsdam Conference

• Marshall Plan

1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any democratic country threatened by communism, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

• Harry's Law

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Truman Doctrine

The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.

• Capitalism

• Josephism

• McCarthyism

• Communism

The American policy of "containing" communism and preventing it from spreading across the world

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Manhattan Project

• Marshall Plan

The theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also become Communist

• Containment

• Domino Theory

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

A Soviet attempt to starve out the Allies in Berlin in order to gain power.

The _________ ___________ was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift.

Extension of the Truman Doctrine that provided economic aid to Europe after World War II

• Manhattan Project

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

• The Marshall Plan

A joint effort by the U.S. and Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union blocked off all ground routes into the city.

• Domino Theory

• Suez Crisis

• Berlin Airlift

• McCarthyism

The ___________ _____________ allowed the United States and the United Kingdom (Britain) to respond to the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin without going to war.